Four films were released on the first day of this year.

"Journey to the West: Havoc in the Heavenly Palace", "Macau Vice", "Predecessor Raiders" and "Where Are You Going, Dad".

As academic actors, Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei don't understand why "Where Are You Going, Dad" can be released in theaters as a movie!

"Where Are You Going, Dad" was a phenomenal variety show last year, and it was very popular, but no film company expected that this thing could be released in theaters during the Spring Festival!

The TV variety show started on October 11 and ended on December 27. From December 9th to 13th, it took 4 and a half days to shoot a big movie, and it will be released on January 31.

This kind of production mode made film critics and producers call it incomprehensible, and it has caused huge controversy inside and outside the circle.

When he was puzzled, Zhang Yuanjun saw the filing announcement of the movie "Where Are You Going, Dad", and the film type clearly wrote the word "documentary".

It turns out that the documentary is understood this way!

The movie "Where Are You Going, Dad" earned 94 million on the first day, and 256 million in the first three days of the first weekend.

These are two completely unreasonable figures.

Coupled with the 320 million in the first week of "Journey to the West: Havoc in the Heavenly Palace" in the same schedule, and 73 million in "Macau Fengyun", the entire Spring Festival file fell into a complete frenzy.

Some theaters even add stools to the hall to sell tickets.

At present, it seems that the biggest winners in the schedule are "Journey to the West" and "Where Are You Going, Dad", and the market is basically raised by these two movies together.

But the two movies don't like each other again.

"Journey to the West" was criticized by netizens for "bad story and poor special effects", and the film's official Weibo commented: "At least this is a movie, which has a lot more conscience than those bullshit column dramas that have only been filmed for 5 days and dare to be put on the big screen!" ”

The director of "Where Are You Going, Dad" quickly responded on Weibo: "Is it a bad movie made in five days?" Do you know that Taili has been preparing for "Where Are You Going, Dad" for a year! Do you know that the column team has been preparing for this project for eight months, do you know that the father and children have such a tacit understanding after three months of shooting, do you know how many all-nighters our post-production team has stayed up all night, and how many versions have been changed to have this effect! The big movie "Where Are You Going, Dad" doesn't say how good it is, at least it's real, natural, and joyful! Thank you for cheering! ”

The two films are like this, if you want to ask Zhang Yuanjun who is standing, he will not hesitate to stand on the side of "Journey to the West".

All the film education Zhang Yuanjun received told him that movies should not be like "Where Are You Going, Dad".

The response of the director of "Where Are You Going, Dad" couldn't pass through him, he sold badly, but he didn't respond to the outside world's questions about whether "Where Are You Going, Dad" is a movie.

He can't understand and won't support a "movie" like "Where Are You Going, Dad", and similarly, recording a concert and putting it in theaters also feels that it violates the definition of "movie".

From the perspective of the theater, whatever is put on the screen is played, as long as there are audiences who buy tickets to enter the theater.

But from the perspective of a movie actor, Zhang Yuanjun can't agree to put this kind of thing in the cinema.

And he especially hates to pull the banner of "the audience likes it, you are the oldest" at this time.

The audience still likes salty and wet films, but can they enter the theater?

Producer Liu took a break until the third day of the Lunar New Year, and plunged into the post-production of "Miss Bai" with Xue Xiaolu.

It was also on this day that Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei finally got the final script of "Looking for the Dragon".

"Is the actor decided?" Zhang Yuanjun asked Sun Ye, the coordinator and assistant director of Wu'er Fan.

"Nope." Sun Ye was not ashamed to say it, "This is not a script, with you and Yifei, we can go to other actors." ”

The industry is doing this, only with the script can the actors be knocked, like Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei, who participated in the story creative period and the script before it was written.

"It can be turned on in August, right?"

"Yes!" Sun Ye patted his chest and packed the ticket.

"If you can."

Sun Ye swallowed and spit out: "When do you think we signed the contract?" ”

Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei have only signed an intent contract with "Looking for the Dragon", and the official actor contract has not yet been signed.

"You just talk to the agent." Professional things are left to professional people to do.

"The filming time of our drama may be relatively long." Sun Yedao.

"If you are long, you will have more time." Zhang Yuanjun prevaricated Sun Ye with this kind of scene, and then joked, "My salary shouldn't be high." ”

Sun Ye could only smile awkwardly, and secretly said in his heart: "You have the highest salary in China!" But he said, "It's okay." Then we'll talk to the agent later. ”

The meeting with Sun Ye basically means that Zhang Yuanjun's New Year's holiday is over.

Zhang Yuanjun brought two good cigarettes the next day and watched Zhang Yimou go.

Zhang Yimou is a real workaholic, he has to stare at the later stage after the completion of "The Return", in addition, he also pushes 3 projects in his hands at the same time, including "Pieces of a Woman", two domestic films and a Hollywood co-production.

When Zhang Yuanjun arrived at his studio, he was chatting with the staff while smoking, and it seemed that the workaholic would also rest.

"Don't be impressed, it works sometimes." I'm talking about home remedies for serious diseases.

It happened that Zhang Yuanjun arrived and was asked, "What kind of earthwork do you have there?" ”

Zhang Yuanjun thought about it for a while: "I don't remember anything else, just remember that bitter gourd root soup cures diarrhea." This is not called a home remedy, bitter gourd is a medicine at all, but I didn't understand it at that time, and it was used as a home remedy. ”

"Bitter gourd root soup? I can't even drink it even if I think about it. ”

Zhang Yuanjun said with a smile: "It's really hard to drink, I was forced to drink it twice when I was a child, and the soup swirled in my stomach and I vomited." ”

After talking for a while, Zhang Yuanjun and Zhang Yimou began to talk about "Fragments of Women".

Zhang Yimou has been thinking about Zhou Ning's entire delivery process proposed by Zhang Yuanjun for more than ten days.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it could be done.

"We first built the couple's house, built the house, and then we went back to the scene to see if we could shoot it. When do you have time? ”

"We'll be working on this drama after the year, just waiting for the director's preparation."

"Okay, I'll urge the scenery over there again." Zhang Yimou said, after finishing the scene, Zhang Yimou said, "Your start-up time is very troublesome, start in May, and tell the story of winter, which will cost a lot more, and you actors will work harder." ”

Zhang Yuanjun didn't know: "No way, Yifei and I signed a drama with Wanda in August, and that scene will be filmed for a long time, and "Pieces of Women" can only be filmed in the summer. ”

The two Zhang sat together and chatted a lot, this was the first time Zhang Yimou had a deep chat with Zhang Yuanjun, and he found that this young man's understanding of drama was very profound, both from the perspective of text creation and from the perspective of performers.

Zhang Yuanjun also saw the most sincere love for movies from Zhang Yimou.

Although later many people said that he was kidnapped by capital, and the level dropped.

But if you don't really love movies, you can't do what he does.

He's probably going to be like Martin Sr., and he'll keep shooting as long as he can move.

The two chatted for a long time, and did not break up and leave until the afternoon. (End of chapter)